The second mouse gets the cheese!

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

It's a sword. said the Hogfather. They're not meant to be safe.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.